Drip catching device



May 31, 1960 w. E. HQRROCKS 2,938,602

DRIP CATCHING DEVICE Filed April 13, 1959 United States Patent O DRIP CATCHING DEVICE Walter E. Horrocks, 1494 Rosewood Ave., Lakewood 7, Ohio Filed Apr. 13, 1959, Ser. No. 805,782

6 Claims. (Cl. 184-106) they allow the oil and grease to drip upon the garage l liloor which results in a greasy oil soaked and slippery oor surface. At certain intervals in order to maintain a clean surface oor it is necessary to scrub oft' the oil and grease drippings or otherwise remove the layer of accumulated oil and grease drippings from the floor of the garage. 'This necessary procedure is a messy and undesirable chore and the important object of my invention is to eliminate this chore in which: One object is to provide a means to collect the accumulated drippings of oils and greases from a garage parked automobile in a manner that will prevent of the drippings from dropping on the garage floor, and in which the drippings can be rolled up into a small bundled pad that has been severed from the stored pad, and be disposed of at various intervals when so desired, and a new clean pad can be unrolled from a rolled up bundle stored in the mother housing shell 5 of the device so as to replace the soiled discarded pad as when it is required to do so.

Another object is to provide a mechanism for holding pads on the oor in a manner so that the ends of the pads are prevented from curling and will maintain the pads in a substantial at contact against the surface of the garage flooring.

Another object is to provide disposal pads that are made of inexpensive material, such as derived from paper products, and which can be removed, rolled up, and disposed of, after their use Without the soiled surfaces being exposed in a manner to contact and soil contacting objects.

Another object is to incorporate means through the said device so that it can be anchored down against the garage oor while the clamping means is opened for inserting or removing the clamped ends of the pads from the device.

Another object is to provide a space within the shell of the device in which a stop indicating bumper can be inserted therethrough behind a rolled up bundle that is stored in the device.

Another object is to provide means on the device that may be stepped upon to hold the device against the garage floor during the interval of either inserting or removing the drip catching material in the device during the threading of it through the clamping jaw of the device as when the device is not anchored to the garage oor and, another object is to provide a device of the character described in which a stopping or position indicating bumper element may be inserted so as to protrude under and beyond the outer sides of the wheels of an automobile in a manner to indicate by a bumping contact of the wheels against the inserted bumping ele- 2,938,602 Patented May 31, 1960 ice ment as to the location of the end of the pad in relation to the end of the automobile, and also providing of the stopping bumper to prevent the automobile being driven beyond the drip catching material that is secured in the device.

With the above and other objects in View which will become apparent when perused in conjunction with the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application, and in which like numerals indicate like parts throughout the same.

The Fig. l is a cross section view as is indicated on the line 1-1 of the Fig. 3,

Fig. 2 is a partial sectional View showing the clamping jaw 11 of the device in an open position with the end of a drip pad 13 inserted in a position to be clamped in the device, and in which 5a indicates the back end of a modified device which is to be spaced away from the mother device shown in the Fig. l, for holding the free end of the unrolled pad 13.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view looking at the face of the structure and, Fig. 4 is a broken top plan view looking at the face of the structure as when a cylindrical stop indicating bumper 15 is used and which protrudes through and beyond the open sides of the tear-drop shell.

Referring now in more detail to the preferred form of the invention as is shown, the numeral 5 indicates a unitary tear shaped body portion with open ends and having a face side and a bottom side, which is laid upon the oor 6 of a garage structure with the bottom portion 7 of the structure extending beyond the apex A of the tear drop shape 5, and having a ange bent backwards to provide a hem '8 to eliminate of any raw terminating cutting edge. The face portion of the structure extends horizontally beyond the apex A and being in contact with the top side of the bottom portion 7, and also being additionally bent backwards to hug against the face side so as to be formed to provide a hand groove handle 9 in which the terminating end of the grooved portion 9 is bent against the inside of the groove to provide a hem 10 sto eliminate of any sharp terminating raw edge that will tend to cut the hand of a person when prying the apex point A open as is shown in the Fig. 2, which allows the pad 13 to be inserted under the jaw 11 and be clamped against the inner side of the bottom portion 7. The bottom portion 7 is preferably provided with side extending portions 12 as shown in the Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 in which the side portions serve the purpose of being stepped upon to hold the device down against the garage oor 6 while prying the clamping jaw 11 awayfrom contact against the bottom portion 7, or against the top side of the pad 13 as is shown in Fig.2, in order to insert or remove the pad 13, as the case may be, andiif so desired the portions 12 may be extended as shown with the dotted lines 12a. In lieu of holding the device against the iloor at intermittent intervals, the extending portions 12 or 12a are preferably provided with apertures 16 so that lag screws, nails or suitable anchoring elements can be inserted through the apertures and be utilized to permanently anchor the device to the garage floor. In utilizing the device in its preferred applications the mother device shown in Figures l and3 are anchored to the garage oor with a rolled bundle of drip catching material inserted in the shell in front of the bumper element 15 with the free end of the roll being inserted and slideable under lthe jaw 11 so as to be stretched out under the length of an automobile to catch all of the drippings from the under side of an automobile. The free stretched out end is clamped in a smaller similar device without the bumper 15 as is indicated at. 5a in the Fig. 2, so that the wheels and the under carriage of the rolling automobile will pass freely over and beyond the smaller device which is to be anchored to the floor of the garage Ystrips of the catching material cut tothe A'proper `.length `may be usedin lieu of the rolled Abundle to practicerny invention without departing from my inventive concept, including utilizing of two small `devices as indicated in the Fig. 2, for holding'the cut ends of pre-cut strips of drip catching materials therein. v

If Va cylindrical bumper `is to be omitted from the mother device shown'in the Fig. 4, a second rolled bundle of the drip catching material can be stored in back of the bundle that isbeing currently used. l

In using the invention in itsV preferred arrangement, the mother device which -is shown lin theFig. -l is anchored to the garage iloor'` with anchoring means passing through the apertures 16 which are shown in the Figures 3 and 4, and a smaller similar device as is shown in the Fig. 2, and which extends to the numeral 5a which `indicates the approximate overall length of the smaller device, is anchored to the garage floor-opposite to the mother device which is shown in the Fig. 1, with the jaws of both structures facing each other and being spaced at a distance away fromV each other to insure of stretchingV case the bumper 1S will not be'used, vand if a bumperV is not to be used in the mother` device shown in the Fig. 1, a larger rolled bundle can be stored in thespace designed for storing a bumper, or an extra rolled bundle can be stored in back of the bundle that is being `currently used in the device. Y

The Fig. 4 illustrates the mother Adevice 5 as when a bumper is to be used in the device showing the wheels of an automobile as when they bump against the bumper so as vto indicate the position of the rolling vehiclerelative to its position overV the stretched Yout pad so as to insure that the vehicle is positioned properly to insure of the `pad catching all of the drippings from the under side of the parked vehicle.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described, is to betaken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts maybe resorted to, without departing from the spirit and concept of my invention, or the scope of the'subjoined claims, and I reserve the right to the use of different elements f or constructing and practicing my invention.

Having thus described my invention and what 'l desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows in which I claim:

1. A unitary tear-shaped spring back housing structure having open sides and, a horizontal bottom portion, an inclined face portion having a movable jaw lying across the top side of the said -bottom portion,lsaid jaw being movable away y'from contact with said bottom portion, means on .the lsaid face 'portion for lifting saidjaw away from said bottom portion, said'bottom portion extending longitudinallybeyond the said jaw with portions of said bottom extending transversally beyond the open sides of said spring backhousing structure. t

2. A housing structure as described in claim l, including a rolled up bundle of disposable material stored in said housing and having its free end arranged to be threaded to slide under said jaw so that an un-rolle'dportion of said bundle can be severed away from the rolled 6. As a new article of manufacture, comprising a tearrshaped spring back'housing structure having open lsides and, a horizontal bottom portion, an inclined faceportion having a movable clamping jawlying across the top side of said bottom portion,zportions of said bottom porltion extendingbeyond the open `sides Vofsaid structure, with said portions having apertures therethrough 'providing means fork inserting anchoring means Y.therethrough to anchor said structure against a garage floor.

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